Wednesday, February 29, 2012

WATCH MOVIES, MAKE MOVIES, SHOW YOUR MOVIES!AviewTV - Machinima galleryNow use it from Facebook-AviewTV promotes videos from the virtual worlds-Note: Because of its new terms of service, you will probably not want to produce commercially marketable videos in Second Life, because Second Life claims the right to sell your products. I am using Kitelyfor such production.-

Monday, February 27, 2012

Video: promo: Drone War in Second Life--Drone War is a first person shooter game created in Second Life.It's totally free.-Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screenhttp://slurl.com/secondlife/Armaud/178/85/1513***How to promote your projects, worked example This is how Sergio Delacruz is promoting his project. -First promo video:Drone War in Second Life

Sunday, February 26, 2012

The illusions of Harter Fall-I recently posted this piece on M.C. Escher: M.C. Escher. Walk into the art . Soon after, I got a note from Harter Fall suggesting that if I liked illusions, I might want to look at his collection. I did.

Is the video "real" art?You can watch it on TV. Surely it is at least as real as the evening news. In any case, it is available to a large audience. You could put commercials around it, just as they do with the evening news segments. Probably not Viagra commercials. Different demographics. -You might want somebody to curate a collection of these. And someone to introduce the segments. Maybe a French version of Alistair Cooke.

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Some people might even choose to watch things like this on TV, now that they read most of the evening news earlier on the internet. Not a mass audience. But you don't need a big audience to pay for this kind of production. This is not likewrapping the Reichstag.-Yes, I pulled a switch on you. From the abstract academic issue of "real" art to the concrete pocket-book issue of commercial art. That's because I want to see virtual art grow. To do that, it needs to draw revenues that exceed the costs. -How some artists encourage visual comments

--Watch on YouTube-The video above presents an exquisite corpse produced in Second Life with support from Linden Endowment for the Arts(LEA). -The method of construction fits very well in the Second Life environment and will no doubt be used more frequently now that we have a video to tell about it. I will be watching for more videos like this. -Videos of virtual art, done by the artists, provide a lasting version of the art that is available to the general public on the web. They also remain available to artists, art students and art collectors.
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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Where am I? Where do I want to be? 2012-Simple answer:(Viewer 3.2) Look at the white navigation bar near the top of your viewer window. You see: The name of the sim you are in and the name of the parcel. Right click on the navigation bar to see some options about what it displays and what you can do with it. I like to have it show coordinates and parcel properties. -This article applies to Viewer 3.2 and above. Other viewers may be different.-